Marker



March 26, 1929. 5 cQRBlTT 1,706,957

MARKER Flled Sept. 1, 1926 Patented Mar. 26, 1929.

UNlTED STATES SAMUEL T. COBBITT, OF ENID, OKLAHOMA.

MARKER.

Application filed September This invention relates to an improved marker and while being particularly adapted for use as a road or street marker is, nevertheless, also well adapted to be employed as a grave marker or monument.

The invention. seeks, among other objects, to provide a marker, the body of which will be formed of plastic material and wherein the letters, emblems or other characters used will be mounted in a novel manner upon the marker body.

A further object of the invention is to provide a marker wherein the body of the device may be readily produced with the aid of knockdown :l orms, and wherein the characters referred. to may, while the body is still in a plastic state, be readily fixed thereto.

Another object of the invention is to provide a marker so formed that the characters will be mounted and. displayed in. a plane lying at substantially a right angle to the line of vision of the average observer so that said characters will thus be more readily readable, and wherein said characters will be disposed substantially within the lines of: the body so as to be protected thereby.

And the invention seeks, as a still. further obj eet, to provide a novel marker character, and wherein the character will be provided with means whereby said character will be securely anchored upon. the marker body.

Other objects of the invention not specifically mcmtioned in the foregoing will appear during the course of the following description.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the improved marker installed adjacent a street.

Figure 2 is a sectional view on the line 22 of Figure 1, looking in the direction in dicated by the arrows.

Figure 3 is a detail perspective view of a typical marker letter or character.

Figure 4 is a plan View showing the marker letters oil the present invention mounted in a street curbing to .torm a marker.

Figure 5 is a detail perspective view showing a modified form of letter or character.

Figure 6 is a fragmentary sectional view showing the mounting of the letter of Figure 6 upon the marker body.

In carrying the invention into effect, I employ a cement marker body which is composed 0t an oblong base portion 10 and a similarly shaped top portion 11, which lat- 1, 1926. Serial No. 133,036.

tor, however, is of slightly less length and thickness than the base portion so that a cir- (aunscribiing shoulder 12 is thus formed to define the junction between the upper and lower portions oi? the body. .lin practice, the body is molded, suitable collapsible forms being employed, and, preferably, the ceniiontitious mixture is such that the finished body will be compact while the exterior surfaces of the body, and particularly the top portion thereof, will be smooth and unbroken. In the present instance, I have shown the body as an integral structure. However, the top portion of the body may, if desired, be formed separately from the base and later joined and cemented thereto at the time of actual erection of the marker. The side, end and bottom faces of the base 10 are preterably flat and extend. at right angles to each other. Likewise, the top portion 11 is pro vided with fiat front and rear faces 13 and 14 respectively as well as flat end faces while the upper edge oil. the top portion is also preferably flat. lilowever, as will be observed, the front taco 13 is inclined toward the perpendicular rear face lei; to extend at an acute angle with respect thereto so that the top portion of the body is hus substanti ally wedge-shaped.

Formed in the front face 13 oil the top portion 11 of the marker body is an oblong sunken panel 15, and countersunk in said panel are the characters 16, the term charactors as herein employed. being intended to cover the use of numerals, letters, emblems, and insignia generally. The characters 16 are preferably molded of aluminum so that each of said characters thus constitutes an integral. or unitary structure and, as shown in detail in Figure 3, each character is provided adjacent its ends with one or more wedge-shaped anchoring lugs 17 which project at right angles from the rear face of the character. As will be observed, the lugs at each end of the character are suitably spaced apart and formed through said lugs near the free ends thereof are openings 18. Preferably, the lugs are, as shown, formed with thin edges at the tips thereof.

As shown in Figure 1, the characters 16 are of a height to snugly fit within the panel 15. These characters are installed. by pressing the anchorin lugs 17 into the material of the top portion 11 before the setting thereof and, of course, the wedge shape of the lugs as well as the presence of the knife edges at the tips thereof,will materially facilitate this operation. Since the lugs are tapered, each of said lugs is, of course, thicker in cross section at the boundary of its opening 18 nearest the base end of the lug tha'nat the 'loound'ary'of the opening nearest the tip of the lug. Accordingly, as the lugs are pressed into the cement, the cement will icurl over into the openings 18 from both sides 01" each of said lugs to fill said openings and, consequently, after the cementhas set, securely anchor the characters in :place. Preferably, the characters -16:lie entirely within the lines of the panel 15-so as to be protected by the walls thereof but, ifp'referred, said characters may factxth'at due to the inclination otthe front face 13 andcorresponding'inclln'ation of-the panel i5,'the characters '16 aremounled in a plane which, in the Sagreat 'm'ajtn'ity of instances, avillbe disposed substantially at a right-angle to the line olf'vision of the observer passing themarier. Accordingly, perspective distortionof the letters or characters will he'eliminate'd and while,in the present instance, I have shown-tl'ie use of 'a single sunken panel to receive the characters, still, as will "beappreci'ated, more than one panel may be employed if so desired.

?In Figure 4 fthe-drawings, I'have shown the 'presentinVentiOn embodied in'a street curbing. -In' this instz'ince,'-the molded cci'nentitious-cnrb '20 provides the marker body, and formedinsaid curb is a sunken panel 21 corresponding to the panel 15 ofthe preferred embodiment of the invention. Countersunk in saidpanel are characters 22 like the char- ,acters 16 so that, as will be seen, the street marker'is incorporated directly in the curb ing of the street while the characlms will be protected by the walls of the panel from injury by automobile wheels scraping the edge of the curb.

In Figures and G of the drawings, l have illustrated a slightly modified torn! otoharacter typically shown at 2E5. '111 this instance, the anchorin-glugs 17 as disclosed in connection with the cliaracterslfi are eliminated and in lieu thereof the character 23 is formed at its end edges with integral attachinglugs 2t in which arezprovided'openings 25. In Figure-6,.the top portion of the markeubody is indicated at 11, said top portion beingprovided with a sunken panel like the panel first described, and, as will be observed, the characters 9.3are countersunk in said panel while the lugs 2% are embedded in the'top and bottom walls of the panel. The openings -25 in 'said'lugs areaccordingly filled so that the character isthus securely locked in position.

llaving thus dcscribed'theinvention, what I claim is:

A marker comprising a body formed from a cement andhaving one face provided with a sunken panel and resultant border, metallic characters having their upper and lower ends intimately engaged, respectively, with the upper and lower walls of'thc upper and lower portions of the border, and having their outer faces in a'plane with the outer surfaces of the border, and retaining lugs extending from upper andlower portions of said characters and embedded in the body above and below the panel and formed with openings through which cement from which the body is formed passes.

In testimony whercof'I aflix 1nsignature.

SAMUEL T. CORBIT'. n s.] 

